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See also:RETHEL, See also:ALFRED (1816–1859) , See also:German See also:historical painter, was See also:born at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle in 1816. He very See also:early showed an See also:interest in See also:art, and at the See also:age of thirteen he executed a See also:drawing which procured his See also:admission to the See also:academy of See also:Dusseldorf. Here he studied for several years, and produced, among other See also:works, a figure of St See also:Boniface which attracted much See also:attention. At the age of twenty he removed to See also:Frankfort, and was selected to decorate the walls of the imperial See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall in the Romer with figures of famous men. At the same See also:period he produced a See also:series of designs illustrative of Old Testament See also:history. Four years later he was the successful competitor for the See also:work of ornamenting the restored See also:council See also:house of his native See also:city with frescoes depicting prominent events in the career of See also:Charlemagne, but the See also:execution of this work was delayed for some six years. Meanwhile Rethel occupied himself with the See also:production of easel pictures and of drawings; and in 1842 he began a striking series of designs dealing with the " See also:Crossing of the See also:Alps by See also:Hannibal," in which the weird See also:power which animates his later art becomes first apparent. In 1844 Rethel visited See also:Rome, executing, along with other subjects, an See also:altar-piece for one of the churches of his native See also:land. In 1846 he returned to Aix, and commenced his Charlemagne frescoes. But See also:mental derangement, remotely attributable, it is believed, to an See also:accident from which he suffered in childhood, began to See also:manifest itself. While he hovered between madness and sanity, Rethel produced some of the most striking, individual and impressive of his works. See also:Strange legends are told of the effect produced by some of his weird subjects. He painted " See also:Nemesis pursuing a Murderer "—a See also:flat stretch of landscape, with a slaughtered See also:body, while in front is the See also:assassin speeding away into the darkness, and above an See also:angel of vengeance. The picture, so the See also:story goes, was won in a lottery at Frankfort by a personage of high See also:rank, who had been guilty of an undiscovered See also:crime, and the contemplation of his See also:prize drove him mad. Another See also:design which Rethel executed was " See also:Death the Avenger," a See also:skeleton appearing at a masked See also:ball, scraping daintily, like a violinist, upon two human bones. The drawing haunted the memory of his artist See also:friends and disturbed their dreams; and, in expiation, he produced his pathetic design of " Death the Friend." Rethel also executed a powerful series of drawings—" The See also:Dance of Death "—suggested by the Belgian insurrections of 1848. It is by such designs as these, executed in a technique founded upon that of See also:Durer, and animated by an See also:imagination akin to that of the See also:elder See also:master, that Rethel is most widely known. He died at Dusseldorf on the 1st of See also:December 1859.
His picture of " See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and See also:John at the Beautiful See also:Gate of the See also:Temple," is preserved in the See also:Leipzig Museum, and his " St See also:Boni-See also:face " and several of his cartoons for the frescoes at Aix in the See also:Berlin See also:National See also:Gallery. His See also:Life, by Wolfgang See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller von See also:Konigswinter, was published in 1861. See also Art See also:Journal, See also:November 1865.
End of Article: RETHEL, ALFRED (1816–1859)
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